UPDATE: Somebody in Toronto is going to really aggravate the greens, see below.
Or more importantly, what will the United Nations do? The American Thinker points out the hypocrisy of the UN with the photo below. Does anyone live in NYC who can snap a photo tomorrow night to see if they follow “Earth Hour?
It is now midnight GMT March 26th, (5PM EST, March 25th in USA) Earth Hour is Saturday, and still is coming up at the time of this writing at 8:30-9:30PM Saturday March 26th in the USA time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, and Hawaii. It will of course happen in that 8:30-9:30PM local time in each timezone on Earth.
I’m interested in finding out what your plans are. What will or did you do? The poll is for entertainment purposes only, and is not scientific.
Choose your answer below:
Also, for a perspective that I embrace, I offer again Dr. Ross McKitrick’s essay on Earth Hour:
Earth Hour: a dissent
UPDATE: This just in from the Toronto Sun
“We will not be in the dark,” journalist and conservative commentator David Menzies said Thursday.
Instead, what you will find is a giant beacon in the sky emanating from his Richmond Hill street between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.
“While everybody else has their lights off I will have every light in my house on,” said Menzies, as he prepared for his second installment in mocking the “phony” Earth Hour movement.
He’s also gone a step further.
“I have rented four rotating Hollywood movie lights which will light up the sky for miles,” he said.
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Right now it is snowing in Wallowa County. I plan on stoking the wood stove through the night and all day tomorrow. I’m a wee little lass and don’t care much for cold bums.
Crystal Cathedral in more ways than one! Look at that big Cross on the building, COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
Dang Crusaders, no wonder they’re goin’ after Libya!
Anthony, you’re being far too hard on the UN. Surely they leave the lights on all day because they are working so hard on our behalf. (Aren’t they?)
Actually tonight I ran out of firewood because the winter has been unusually cold, and since it’s still cold here in Philly (mid 20sF at night) I’ve resorted to burning some scrap lumber and old shingles from the home addition project tonight. Before you Greenies get all excited, they are cedar shingles. Still carbon neutral. But if this cold continues I’m going to have to resort to the waste oil heater in the barn.
I think the case with the UN building is that the lights may be on but no one is home.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/world-urged-to-mark-earth-hour/story-fn3dxity-1226028493308
I have my refurbished pool lights ready for action.
Anthony, based on previous EH campaigns of the WWF, the Philippines was always no. 1 in terms of estimated participants; could mean we have the most number of climate alarmists around the world? I criticized the EH, added Ross McKitrick’s article, then sent my paper to the top 2 EH officials of WWF here in Manila. As usual, after seeing my harsh critique of their program, their answer is standard: silence of the lamb. Here it is, http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/2011/03/earth-hour-lunacy-part-2.html
“There was Earth Hour tonight?”
lol, yeh, I know there’s one every year, but I didn’t know it was tonight until I read the post! I thought it coincided with that earthday birthday thingy. I think in honor of earth hour, Imma have some ethanol and use it for its intended purposes! Yea! Earth hour!
You might want to fix the comment about the post time. Midnight GMT is equivalent to 5 pm PDT. [Or 7 pm EST, although few are on EST at the moment.]
I will be helping to generate 1.850 gw-hr of emission free energy during that hour.
Actually, that will be 1.850 gw-hr of emission free electricity. It will require 5.60 gw-hr of energy to be liberated from a few grams of U-235, 238 and various Pu isotopes. God help us if we are hit by a 14 meter tsunami at this location 100 km inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
This year I plan to rent one of those Grand Opening/Movie Premier gasoline powered quadruple rotating spotlights and put it in front of my home. It will project four gloriously intense beacons of fossil fuel powered rationality into the dark night sky.
Next to it I will place a big sign that reads,
“I refuse to sit in the dark in the name of a sanctimonious, irrational and failed theory.”
Turn off the radio and TV, as always do. And search for sensible info only on the Internet.
And if someone tells me the tons of CO2 he has saved I will remind him that those tons of CO2 could have been used by plants to make tons of sugar.
Remember. 1 Kg of Sugar has been made with over 900 g of CO2.
I’m going to celebrate a day I have started myself: Electricity Day. It means I’m going to leave all lights on and think of all the wonderful things our technological revolution has brought us.
You americans have a fondness for celebrating everything on certain days. Why not hijack this day for the sake of electricity?
Somebody unplug the life support for Global Warming!
Celebrating Human Achivement Hour: http://cei.org/hah2011
And viewing: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/27/earth-hour-in-north-korea-a-stunning-success/#more-17803
😉
Earth hour? I didn’t miss it yet? Phew. Note to self – crank it up, baby! Most expensive hour on my monthly bill.
Seriously, we should counter this ridiculous, self-flagellating guilt trip with an hour of celebration of how fortunate we are to enjoy the comfort and safety of modern technology, and remind the proponents of this act of contrition how their ideology and policies do their best to keep a large portion of the world’s population in perpetual poverty.
I loved that Ross McKitrick post from a week or so back. Easily the best, most concise critique of Earth Hour I’ve ever read.
I chose option 1 as that was the closest to what I will actually do.
Since earth hour is an entirely cosmetic occurrence I will not switch on every electrical appliance, just those that people can see from outside.
While Earth Hour is in progress I will be on a CO2 generating Business class flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne.
I’ll have an extra glass of CO2 laden champange to celebrate the technical marvel of modern air travel that allows us to travel to any reasonable spot on this globe in approx not more than 24 hours.
Long live human innovation and courage to live in the face of the human hating greens.
Earth Hour
A cold, dark and starry starry night
A spark
A stick
Meet
United in conflagration
Providing
Light – to my eyes
Warmth – to my body
Carbon dioxide and water – to the atmosphere
Extinguished
by the laws of nature
The components
scattered to the four winds
absorbed by the earth
Driven
by the Sun
A new stick
Another spark
Meet.
I voted “ignore”.
Without this reminder, I would vote “Earth hour?”
Can’t afford to “Turn ON every possible light and electrical appliance I own…”,
my spite will be shown by indifference.
If we could get everyone in the U.S. to turn all their power off for just 2 minutes at the same exact time we could crash the grid.
Then we’d show us!!
“James Sexton says:
March 25, 2011 at 5:31 pm
“There was Earth Hour tonight?”
lol, yeh, I know there’s one every year, but I didn’t know it was tonight until I read the post! I thought it coincided with that earthday birthday thingy. I think in honor of earth hour, Imma have some ethanol and use it for its intended purposes! Yea! Earth hour!”
DITO. But I was working on my Tax obligation.
Nonoy Oplas says:
March 25, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Kamusta, pinoy. Ahhh… before you get too excited… hindi akong mabuting mag salitat ng inyong wika!
Still, I’m a little surprised that you sound surprised about Philippine enthusiasm for Earth Day. The Filipino character is marked by passion and enthusiasm – a phlegmatic Filipino is one that has been dead and buried for about a year… he finally decided that it made no difference which cock won the fight or who beat who.
I’m turning on all the lights, cranking up the heaters, and burning all my old newspapers in the fireplace. Drill, baby Drill!! Still feels like an Ice Age up here in New Hampshire. Foot of snow on the ground and below freezing most of the day and all night long, and *this is spring time*….